Instituto Federal de Fronteira: um estudo comparado entre o IFPR - Campus de Foz do Iguaçu e o IFSul - Campus Santana do Livramento

Abstract

This study presents a comparative research between two Brazilian Federal Institutes of education, in the border region, being, Federal Institute of Paraná (IFPR) Foz do Iguaçu Campus and the Federal Institute Sul-rio-grandense (IFSul) Santana do Livramento Campus. The research aimed to understand and analyze how the implementation of these two federal institutes was effected and how the profile of these institutions was defined according to their locations in borders, having as a theoretical basis for the thesis development presented the analysis of content categories: work, professional education, community participation and border. The methodology used is substantiated on Dialectical Historical Materialism. It is a research of qualitative approach, bibliographic, documentary and field based, having as an instrument of data collection the semi-structured interview, in which determinants were: level of community participation, the varied configuration of the subjects' interests and of the representatives of various segments of society, institutions and countries involved in each case; the history of relations between the countries; the cooperation agreements signed between the countries and institutions involved; the institutional policy for the campuses located on the border. The question that guided the study was: Are there determinants that make a federal institute have a profile considered to be "Federal Institute from the border” or a "Federal Institute at the border"? The hypothesis is that the differentiation between “from” and “at” the border is based on the synthesis of the multiple determinations that were found with the conduct of interviews and bibliographic and documentary research. With the results of the research it was concluded that IFPR - Foz do Iguaçu campus is an Institute at the border and IFSul - campus Santana do Livramento is an institute from a border.